<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<meta content="Apache Forrest" name="Generator">
<meta name="Forrest-version" content="0.8">
<meta name="Forrest-skin-name" content="lucene">
<title>
	Apache Lucene - Building and Installing the Basic Demo
		</title>
<link type="text/css" href="skin/basic.css" rel="stylesheet">
<link media="screen" type="text/css" href="skin/screen.css" rel="stylesheet">
<link media="print" type="text/css" href="skin/print.css" rel="stylesheet">
<link type="text/css" href="skin/profile.css" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="skin/getBlank.js" language="javascript" type="text/javascript"></script><script src="skin/getMenu.js" language="javascript" type="text/javascript"></script><script src="skin/fontsize.js" language="javascript" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="images/favicon.ico">
</head>
<body onload="init()">
<script type="text/javascript">ndeSetTextSize();</script>
<div id="top">
<!--+
    |breadtrail
    +-->
<div class="breadtrail">
<a href="http://www.apache.org/">Apache</a> &gt; <a href="http://lucene.apache.org/">Lucene</a><script src="skin/breadcrumbs.js" language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"></script>
</div>
<!--+
    |header
    +-->
<div class="header">
<!--+
    |start group logo
    +-->
<div class="grouplogo">
<a href="http://lucene.apache.org/"><img class="logoImage" alt="Lucene" src="http://www.apache.org/images/asf_logo_simple.png" title="Apache Lucene"></a>
</div>
<!--+
    |end group logo
    +-->
<!--+
    |start Project Logo
    +-->
<div class="projectlogo">
<a href="http://lucene.apache.org/java/"><img class="logoImage" alt="Lucene" src="http://lucene.apache.org/images/lucene_green_300.gif" title="Apache Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in
      Java. It is a technology suitable for nearly any application that requires full-text search, especially cross-platform."></a>
</div>
<!--+
    |end Project Logo
    +-->
<!--+
    |start Search
    +-->
<div class="searchbox">
<form action="http://search.lucidimagination.com/p:lucene" method="get" class="roundtopsmall">
<input onFocus="getBlank (this, 'Search the site with Lucene');" size="25" name="q" id="query" type="text" value="Search the site with Lucene">&nbsp; 
                    <input name="Search" value="Search" type="submit">
</form>
<div style="position: relative; top: -5px; left: -10px">Powered by <a href="http://www.lucidimagination.com" style="color: #033268">Lucid Imagination</a>
</div>
</div>
<!--+
    |end search
    +-->
<!--+
    |start Tabs
    +-->
<ul id="tabs">
<li class="current">
<a class="selected" href="http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/">Main</a>
</li>
<li>
<a class="unselected" href="http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java">Wiki</a>
</li>
<li class="current">
<a class="selected" href="index.html">Lucene 3.0.3 Documentation</a>
</li>
</ul>
<!--+
    |end Tabs
    +-->
</div>
</div>
<div id="main">
<div id="publishedStrip">
<!--+
    |start Subtabs
    +-->
<div id="level2tabs"></div>
<!--+
    |end Endtabs
    +-->
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
document.write("Last Published: " + document.lastModified);
//  --></script>
</div>
<!--+
    |breadtrail
    +-->
<div class="breadtrail">

             &nbsp;
           </div>
<!--+
    |start Menu, mainarea
    +-->
<!--+
    |start Menu
    +-->
<div id="menu">
<div onclick="SwitchMenu('menu_1.1', 'skin/')" id="menu_1.1Title" class="menutitle">Documentation</div>
<div id="menu_1.1" class="menuitemgroup">
<div class="menuitem">
<a href="index.html">Overview</a>
</div>
<div onclick="SwitchMenu('menu_1.1.2', 'skin/')" id="menu_1.1.2Title" class="menutitle">Changes</div>
<div id="menu_1.1.2" class="menuitemgroup">
<div class="menuitem">
<a href="changes/Changes.html">Core</a>
</div>
<div class="menuitem">
<a href="changes/Contrib-Changes.html">Contrib</a>
</div>
</div>
<div onclick="SwitchMenu('menu_1.1.3', 'skin/')" id="menu_1.1.3Title" class="menutitle">Javadocs</div>
<div id="menu_1.1.3" class="menuitemgroup">
<div class="menuitem">
<a href="api/all/index.html">All</a>
</div>
<div class="menuitem">
<a href="api/core/index.html">Core</a>
</div>
<div class="menuitem">
<a href="api/demo/index.html">Demo</a>
</div>
<div onclick="SwitchMenu('menu_1.1.3.4', 'skin/')" id="menu_1.1.3.4Title" class="menutitle">Contrib</div>
<div id="menu_1.1.3.4" class="menuitemgroup">
<div class="menuitem">
<a href="api/contrib-analyzers/index.html">Analyzers</a>
</div>
<div class="menuitem">
<a href="api/contrib-smartcn/index.html">Smart Chinese Analyzer</a>
</div>
<div class="menuitem">
<a href="api/contrib-ant/index.html">Ant</a>
</div>
<div class="menuitem">
<a href="api/contrib-bdb/index.html">Bdb</a>
</div>
<div class="menuitem">
<a href="api/contrib-bdb-je/index.html">Bdb-je</a>
</div>
<div class="menuitem">
<a href="api/contrib-benchmark/index.html">Benchmark</a>
</div>
<div class="menuitem">
<a href="api/contrib-collation/index.html">Collation</a>
</div>
<div class="menuitem">
<a href="api/contrib-fast-vector-highlighter/index.html">Fast Vector Highlighter</a>
</div>
<div class="menuitem">
<a href="api/contrib-highlighter/index.html">Highlighter</a>
</div>
<div class="menuitem">
<a href="api/contrib-instantiated/index.html">Instantiated</a>
</div>
<div class="menuitem">
<a href="api/contrib-lucli/index.html">Lucli</a>
</div>
<div class="menuitem">
<a href="api/contrib-memory/index.html">Memory</a>
</div>
<div class="menuitem">
<a href="api/contrib-misc/index.html">Miscellaneous</a>
</div>
<div class="menuitem">
<a href="api/contrib-queries/index.html">Queries</a>
</div>
<div class="menuitem">
<a href="api/contrib-queryparser/index.html">Query Parser Framework</a>
</div>
<div class="menuitem">
<a href="api/contrib-regex/index.html">Regex</a>
</div>
<div class="menuitem">
<a href="api/contrib-remote/index.html">Remote</a>
</div>
<div class="menuitem">
<a href="api/contrib-snowball/index.html">Snowball</a>
</div>
<div class="menuitem">
<a href="api/contrib-spatial/index.html">Spatial</a>
</div>
<div class="menuitem">
<a href="api/contrib-spellchecker/index.html">Spellchecker</a>
</div>
<div class="menuitem">
<a href="api/contrib-surround/index.html">Surround</a>
</div>
<div class="menuitem">
<a href="api/contrib-swing/index.html">Swing</a>
</div>
<div class="menuitem">
<a href="api/contrib-wikipedia/index.html">Wikipedia</a>
</div>
<div class="menuitem">
<a href="api/contrib-wordnet/index.html">Wordnet</a>
</div>
<div class="menuitem">
<a href="api/contrib-xml-query-parser/index.html">XML Query Parser</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="menuitem">
<a href="systemrequirements.html">System Requirements</a>
</div>
<div class="menuitem">
<a href="contributions.html">Contributions</a>
</div>
<div class="menuitem">
<a href="http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/LuceneFAQ">FAQ</a>
</div>
<div class="menuitem">
<a href="fileformats.html">File Formats</a>
</div>
<div class="menuitem">
<a href="gettingstarted.html">Getting Started</a>
</div>
<div class="menuitem">
<a href="lucene-contrib/index.html">Lucene Contrib</a>
</div>
<div class="menuitem">
<a href="queryparsersyntax.html">Query Syntax</a>
</div>
<div class="menuitem">
<a href="scoring.html">Scoring</a>
</div>
<div class="menuitem">
<a href="http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java">Wiki</a>
</div>
</div>
<div id="credit"></div>
<div id="roundbottom">
<img style="display: none" class="corner" height="15" width="15" alt="" src="skin/images/rc-b-l-15-1body-2menu-3menu.png"></div>
<!--+
  |alternative credits
  +-->
<div id="credit2"></div>
</div>
<!--+
    |end Menu
    +-->
<!--+
    |start content
    +-->
<div id="content">
<div title="Portable Document Format" class="pdflink">
<a class="dida" href="demo.pdf"><img alt="PDF -icon" src="skin/images/pdfdoc.gif" class="skin"><br>
        PDF</a>
</div>
<h1>
	Apache Lucene - Building and Installing the Basic Demo
		</h1>
<div id="minitoc-area">
<ul class="minitoc">
<li>
<a href="#About this Document">About this Document</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#About the Demos">About the Demos</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Setting your CLASSPATH">Setting your CLASSPATH</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Indexing Files">Indexing Files</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#About the code...">About the code...</a>
</li>
</ul>
</div>


<a name="N10013"></a><a name="About this Document"></a>
<h2 class="boxed">About this Document</h2>
<div class="section">
<p>
This document is intended as a "getting started" guide to using and running the Lucene demos.
It walks you through some basic installation and configuration.
</p>
</div>



<a name="N1001C"></a><a name="About the Demos"></a>
<h2 class="boxed">About the Demos</h2>
<div class="section">
<p>
The Lucene command-line demo code consists of two applications that demonstrate various
functionalities of Lucene and how one should go about adding Lucene to their applications.
</p>
</div>


<a name="N10025"></a><a name="Setting your CLASSPATH"></a>
<h2 class="boxed">Setting your CLASSPATH</h2>
<div class="section">
<p>
First, you should <a href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/java/">download</a> the
latest Lucene distribution and then extract it to a working directory.  Alternatively, you can <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/SourceRepository">check out the sources from
Subversion</a>, and then run <span class="codefrag">ant war-demo</span> to generate the JARs and WARs.
</p>
<p>
You should see the Lucene JAR file in the directory you created when you extracted the archive.  It
should be named something like <span class="codefrag">lucene-core-{version}.jar</span>.  You should also see a file
called <span class="codefrag">lucene-demos-{version}.jar</span>.  If you checked out the sources from Subversion then
the JARs are located under the <span class="codefrag">build</span> subdirectory (after running <span class="codefrag">ant</span>
successfully).  Put both of these files in your Java CLASSPATH.
</p>
</div>


<a name="N10048"></a><a name="Indexing Files"></a>
<h2 class="boxed">Indexing Files</h2>
<div class="section">
<p>
Once you've gotten this far you're probably itching to go.  Let's <b>build an index!</b> Assuming
you've set your CLASSPATH correctly, just type:

<pre>
    java org.apache.lucene.demo.IndexFiles {full-path-to-lucene}/src
</pre>

This will produce a subdirectory called <span class="codefrag">index</span> which will contain an index of all of the
Lucene source code.
</p>
<p>
To <b>search the index</b> type:

<pre>
    java org.apache.lucene.demo.SearchFiles
</pre>

You'll be prompted for a query.  Type in a swear word and press the enter key.  You'll see that the
Lucene developers are very well mannered and get no results. Now try entering the word "string".
That should return a whole bunch of documents.  The results will page at every tenth result and ask
you whether you want more results.
</p>
</div>


<a name="N10063"></a><a name="About the code..."></a>
<h2 class="boxed">About the code...</h2>
<div class="section">
<p>

<a href="demo2.html">read on&gt;&gt;&gt;</a>

</p>
</div>


</div>
<!--+
    |end content
    +-->
<div class="clearboth">&nbsp;</div>
</div>
<div id="footer">
<!--+
    |start bottomstrip
    +-->
<div class="lastmodified">
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
document.write("Last Published: " + document.lastModified);
//  --></script>
</div>
<div class="copyright">
        Copyright &copy;
         2006 <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/">The Apache Software Foundation.</a>
</div>
<!--+
    |end bottomstrip
    +-->
</div>
</body>
</html>
